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Character Quotes
"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."
65
"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary."
62
"The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character."
59
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."
56
"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing."
54
"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."
53
"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right."
48
"My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors."
42
"When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are."
40
"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character."
39
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
38
"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity."
38
"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character."
38
"A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character."
38
"I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character."
36
"Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."
36
"What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great."
35
"Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy."
35
"There starts to be an overlap between you and the character."
35
"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."
34
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
33
"The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing."
33
"I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me."
33
"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
33
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
33
"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
33
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
33
"Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness."
32
"Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others."
32
"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
32
"I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them."
32
"Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do."
32
"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level."
31
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
31
"I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene."
31
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